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...ruins, and built unsteadily out of the debris the north-central republic under Yuan Shih-kai and the rival southern republic under Sun Yatsen. Both these "presidents" died,-the former at the height of power, allegedly by poison; the latter a weary exile in cold Peking. China became the spoil of numerous Tuchuns or provincial governors. One year ago, on "the tenth day of the tenth month," there was a relatively stable northern Government at Peking, and the southern Government at Canton weltered in the doldrums of impotence. During the past year this situation has sensationally reversed itself...
Those who held the Office successfully throughout the week were adherents of Dictator Kondylis. Early in the week Colonel Zeryas, commander of the Republican Guard which had been supporting General Kondylis, strode into the new Dictator's office and demanded tangible spoil for himself and his men as their wages for deserting General Pangalos. Dictator Kondylis refused the Colonel's demand. Colonel Zervas, vexed, grew purple, spat in the General's face, cried: "I made you Dictator and I can unmake...
...sought the new Dictator-with and against whom he has plotted many times-presented a petition signed by many a rabble scrawl demanding the formation of a Coalition Cabinet. This demand, already fructifying in other brains, led to a congress of chop, swap and barter between a spoil-ravenous group of military and naval adventurers and numerous former Premiers (Kafandaris, Papanastasion, Michalakopoulos, etc.). For a time anarchy loomed. Eventually General Kondylis, mixing bluster with serpentine intrigue was able to form what he called "a business cabinet." The "recalled" President of the Hellenic Republic, Admiral Konduriotis*, was persuaded to shed...
...even Jones. Turnesa had the likeliest chance. His 294 led the field. Leo Diegel, until he took a six on the short sixteenth, had seemed a sure winner. Hagen -"Third Round" Hagen-had thundered around, burning up the course, 4, 4, 3, 2, 4, with four bad holes to spoil his chances at the end. "Wild Bill" Mehlhorn, he of the huge feet and iron wrist, had undone his hope only by an overbold attempt to gobble a long putt on the last green. The 294 was still best; Turnesa waited...
...told, the book is rather a mediocre feat for the celebrated scorner of average men, literary grace, Pulitzer Prizes. The flaying of E. Wesson Woodbury may spoil a great many people's summer vacations, but far more malice could have been wrought, and more sales made, if the ending had not been so tediously dragged out. After paddling far up the stream of U. S. literature, Mr. Lewis has idly turned his canoe and shot some unexciting rapids...